When he started his dissertation, Jim Burleson had to convince me that people really did use Facebook & Whatsapp to support communicating with their clients and co-workers.
I was like, no, no way. Who would use Facebook IM for work?
These days, I use it to communicate with co-authors on three continents.
Every so often, you have to admit the young folks know things.
Jim's work explains the thought process behind taking a software application designed for personal use and applying it in the workplace.
Like me, it took a while for a journal editor to bite - but when one did - Jim nailed it.
His work, "A Representation Theory Perspective on the Repurposing of Personal Technologies for Work-Related Tasks", appears in the Journal of Association for Information Systems.
Jim's work was advised Varun Grover and Heshan Sun with a bit of help from me.
I could not be prouder of Jim for sticking to his guns and seeing the project through to publication.
You can find the paper here: https://lnkd.in/g6Yxajhm
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